Book description
Otto McGavin is peaceful and idealistic by nature, an Anglo-Buddhist,
who seeks employment with the Confederacion because he believes in it
and its mission to protect the rights of humans and nonhumans. The only
problem is that the Confederacion needs him as a Prime Operator for its
secret service, the TBII, and the TBII wants Otto as a spy, a thief and
an assassin. It's not, of course, a problem for the Confederacion, which
simply uses immersion therapy and hypnosis for Otto's training, and then
sends him out in deep cover on a variety of dangerous missions on a
number of bizarre worlds. But for Otto, it's a different matter: what he
has to witness and what he is forced to do take a terrible toll on him .
. . Joe Haldeman was born in Oklahoma in 1943 and studied physics and
astronomy before serving as a combat engineer in Vietnam, where he was
severely wounded and won a Purple Heart. The Forever War was his first
SF novel and it won both the Hugo and Nebula awards, a feat which The
Forever Peace repeated. He is also the author of, among others,
Mindbridge, All My Sins Remembered, Worlds, Worlds Apart and Worlds
Enough and Time.
